Interview of Jussi Hurmola, Jolla Mobile’s managing director - with a comment on Open Moko

[joerg Reisenweber]

On Tue 21 May 2013 19:54:54 thomasg wrote:
> On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 2:03 PM, Yury Sakarinen <zyth at onego.ru> wrote:
> > Jolla news:
> > 
> > At the core of Jolla is Sailfish, a mobile-optimized OS that has the
> > flexibility of a unique, open platform.
> 
> One should mention, that "open platform" is a contrast to "open source
> platform".
> For example, Apple Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows (non-RT) are open
> platforms.
> 
> I'm still highly skeptical and don't believe we will see a Jolla phone
> running _as_ open source (frameworks, phone-stack, UI) but just _on_
> open source (linux, wayland, qt).
> 

Well, compare maemo, which btw is also a good irc channel to have a short chat 
on that topic. jolla is based on mer and nemo, and probably as "open" as 
maemo5 been *) (and still is). Or better, according to Carsten Munk aka 
stskeeps

/j

*) 
http://wiki.maemo.org/Why_the_closed_packages
https://wiki.maemo.org/Fremantle_closed_packages
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